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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-08-24
Only SIS a Year.
Summer Resort.
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The most popular resort in this part of
our world is L. WolfsOn's White Elephant
Clothing Store.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-08-24

We have the best 50-cent Cos
samer Undershirts in the city.
Our Hercules Drawers are al
most everlasting in the wear.
We carry a full assortment.
Real Maco Seamless Half-Hose
at 25c., or $3.50 a dOz., are the
best value ever offered. A
splendid line Of COlored Half
Hose.of our own importation.
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: VERY"OLD PEOPLE,.

PHILIP LYON was the oldest Odd Fellow In,
New Jersey when he died recently at the age
THE grandmother of W. H. Penland, of Lei--
cester, Penn, enjoys remarkably good health,
and yet she has passed her 1Olst birthday.
MRS LAvINIA FILLMORE, the wife Of a.
Methodist minister, at Buffalo, will celebrate
the centennial of her birth on the 18th Of
August next.
THE only beverage used by DR.. Upson, Of
Elnda, N. Y, is the mineral spring water Of
that place, He is now ninety-si1 years Of {
age, and goes fishing daily.
UNCLE DICK BENNETT, of Bentonville, Me-,
has given up horse-racing, joined the church,
and been baptized after right royal life of'
pleasure, which endured 109 years.
Mrs. AvABA DOUGLAS, of Omaha, has q,
wonderful memory for person of her years.
Lines committed to memory ninety years-
ago are as fresh to her as ever. She is just.
100 years of age. = =
MRS. SALLIE JAMES, Of Leicester, N. c.
has had but twenty-five birthdays yet she has
sen century Of life. She was born on !.
February %, 17ss. She employs her TINA
carding and spinning, and is as active as q.
woman Of forty. -
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THE LABOR WORLD.

THERE are now 56O, 900 members in the Ma
tional Federation Of Labor.
THE carpenters have local unions in 300
cities and towns in the United States and
Canada
MORE than 5000 men struck during the
month of June, nearly all of them for an ad-
vance of wages.
The Lasters' Union of Worcester, Mass,
has given up its struggle with the boot manu-
facturers, and the trouble between them is
finally ended.
A PITTSBURGH coal miner has patented
coal mining machine which will undercut
from four to six feet. 1t weighs less than
200 pounds, and will mine fifty tons day.
The manufacturers of newspaper and job
presses have now more work on hand than
for three years. Capacity has been increased
25 per cent in some of the New York and
Chicago establishments.
FROM the activity in increasing the capacity
of New England woolen mills, heavy de-
mand is expected.
The Chicago convention of the building
trades has adopted constitution which de-
clares the organization shall be known as the
National Trades Council of the United States
and shall be composed of delegates from such
building trades, fetleratonS or organizations
as shall recognize its jurisdiction. 1t is the
object of this council to assist in the organi-
zation of the journey1Ren workers of the
building trades and the federation of such
trade organizations into building trades coun-
ellis and central bodies in each locality of the
United States: to create bond OF unity be-
tween between the wage working builders
and TO aid by council and support all lesiti-
mate efforts made for the betterment OF the
condition of members of building trades.
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LIGHTNING FREAKS,

Two gypsy girls were killed by lightning
near New Berlinville, Va, while walking in
the woods
SEVERAL wild geese fell dead after a vivid
fash of lightning III a California town, but
there was not the slightest mark of violence
upon them.
LIGHTNING played along telegraph wire
near Oregon, Penn, and made kindling wood
of the poles as ii passed. When through its
caper thirteen poles had been destroyed.
Two locust trees that stood sixty feet apart
on the farm of Levi s. Reist at Ore.:u,
PENN. were simultaneously struck by l:ci.,.
ming and split into kinding wood wliic ,,w
sun was shining
LIGHTNING struck q hickory tres near
Tom Loylee'S saloon at Dawson. Ga. and cut
it into ribbons Two young men in the
saloon were thrown to the floor, another
against the PARTITION so as to break his ribs,
while fourth was so slightly shocked as not
to be disturbed.
NEAR Brownsville, Texas, lightning struck
house ut the ChatoncS ranch, and of six peo-
pie SittAg around table NJ. Portales and
his wife were instantly killed, and Eugeneo
Rincoiics each lost sight of the right eye,
while the other two, Rincones's two SONS were
not at all injured
A FLASH of lightning passed before Miss A.
Slaton OF Augusta, Ga, as she sat on the
piazza of her residence. She flew into her
mothers arms in the house and notioned for
water, and was then seized with u spasln and
swooned Two red blotshes appeared on her
left cheek near the eye. AS they decreased i,
size the girl gradually recovered conscious
ness, and is now entirely well.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS,

SAN FRANCISCO claims a population Of"
$4,000 ~. u
Two million postal cards are printed daily
at present. ~
STUDENT WATERS will continue to flourish.
at many Of the White Mountain Hotels.
IT is said that the Government still owns
SO, O00,0 600 acres of unsurveyei land in Ne
vada.
A LYNX, recently killed by George Molster,,
in Waukesha County, ILL.,, measured six feet.-
in length.
POTATO growers in California are elated
over the success OF the Plan Of sh piping pota-
toes to. Chicago. - 49,. =.
A COMPANY Of the titled Frenchmen are-
breeding Arabian horses on the Lame Johnny
Greek in Dakota .- -
GENERAL BoULANGER, the French ex-M Minis
ter Of War, has been appointed to commands
about 250 miles from Paris
MRS. CLEvEtAD says that she and the Presi-
dent intend to visit Chicago, Milwaukee, and
other Western cities in the autumn.
GEORGE D. HILL, treasurer of King County
Washington Territory, has been indicted at
Seattle. His accounts are S6l Az. 81 slort.
MATTHIAS SPLITLoe, Wyandotte Indian
worth 81 ,000, ,00o, was last week swindled out
Of $4,000 in real estate transaction at
Wyardotte, Kansas
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

In the first six months of this year pc, ,655
immigrants arrived at New YOrk-an in
crease of G3,s4S over the corresponding period
during 1856.
JOHN WILSON, workman living near
Chatham, n. j., killed his wife and then blew
his own brains out He had been drinking
heavily.
THE Thirteenth New Jersey Regiment de-
dicated its monument at Gettysburg. The
GRAFTON was delivered by Major-General
Slocum.
YALE defeated Harvard five lengths in the
annual eight-oared boat race between the
two Universit es at New London, Conn. The
distance was four miles, and Yale's time was
% minutes 10119 seconds.
AN explosion among the fireworks of a
large store on Broadway, New York, was fol-
lowed by q fire in which two or three men
lost their lives; and pecuniary losses amount
ing to about $500, 600 were inflicted.
ORDERS were sent from Rome OH the 4th to
the Archbishop of New York to excommuni-
cate the Rev. Dr.. McGlynn, and to publish
the degree of communication in the jour
mails.
LUKEP. PoLANo, ext United States Senator,
died of apoplexy few days ago at his resi-
dence in Waterville. Vt. He was born in
Westford, VT, in 1915, and had been Chief
Justice of the State Supreme Court and
member of both Houses of Congress.
AsTATUE of General Burnside was unveiled
at Providence, r. L, with appropriate cere-
monies.
JOHN SLADR & Co., of New York, one of
the Oldest wholesale drygoods houses in the
country, have failed for large sum.
PROFESSOR C. H. GRIMLEY, an aeronaut,
and companion in a balloon ascension at
Portland, Me-, were carried out to sea by the
wind and struck the water, but were rescued
by yacht
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Foreign.

THE youthful Emperor of China is to be
married. The festivities will cost Is, ,000, ,00o.
A sHoRT-TIME movement is spreading in
every direction among English cotton spin
ners
GREAT BRITAIN and Russia have made
mutual concessions regarding the Afghan
boundary questions, which it is expected
will result in all early agreement between
the two nations.
A MEETING of Americans was held in Lon
don on the Fourth. To the toast proposed by
United States Minister Phelps r'The
Fourth-No country to an American like
home'D, james G. Blaine responded.
EXTENSIVE preparations have been made
for the eviction of seventy tenants in County
Wexford Ireland The tenants will resist to
the best Of their power.
A MAN named Schimak, who has just been
arrested in Moravia, has committed six muir
derS, three great robberies, and numerous
theftS He had in his possession programme
for the murder of eighty of the richest in
habitants of Moravia He had several &C
completes, some of whom have been arrested.
A PART of st. Remi. Quebec, has been
burned Thirty private dwellings and five
places of business were destroyed. Loss,
100000.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Mr. BANCROFT, the aged historian, keeps
eight type-writers busy.
MRS. CLEVELAND will be twenty three
years of age Oh the 2lst of July.
THE Hon. John S. Wise, of Virginia, de-
livered the Fourth of July Grafton in Phila-
delphia.
JAY GOULD says that he is going to take
things easy this summer and let his son
George do the work.
ONE of Mr.. Blaine's earliest invitations in
London came from Mr.. Gladstone, and was
promptly accepted.
BISHOP KIP is the new President of the
General Theological Seminary of the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church of America.
PROFESSOR BILLRoTH, of Vienna, probably
the greatest living surgeon, pronounccs PaS-
teur's hytlrophobia treatment fiasco.
w. L. TRENHOLM, United States Comp
troller of Currency, is tall, 1.-the man, With
dark eyes, gray hair and gray mustache.
MISS OLIVIA COBB, granddaughter of
General Howell Cobb, of Athens, Ga, is pro-
nounced in Washington social circles the
belle of the South.
SENATOR EvARTS has five daughters, four
married and one single. Miss Mary Evarts
is an accomplished musician ami has
splendid contralto voice.
Miss MoSBY, daughter OF the once famous
guerilla chief, is writing 4 bit of war his
tory. Her material is procured from mem-
ber of the Mosby command.
CAPTAIN MACKENZIE, the champion chess
player of America, has sailed for Europe to
represent the New York Club in the German,
English and Scottish international tourna-
ments.
MRS. KATE w. HOWE, the lady member of
the Grand Army, was the observed of all the
Observers at the Saratoga reunion. she sat
on her horse firmly and rode in line like
thorough veteran.
FRED. H. NICHOLS, Connecticut veteran
of the late civil war, entered the Union SER
vice in 1862 at the age of fourteen years and
one month He carried musket from the
day of his enlistment for three years and
took part in many hard-fought battles.
BRIGGS SWIFT, President of the wrecked
Fidelity Bank of Cincinnati, has had previ-
Gus unpleasant experience with lawbreakers
At the time the Cincinnati Court House was
burning and the streets were held by the
rioters, Mr. Swift went up Ito see what was
going on" and was severely wounded by
musket-ball, from the effects of which he lin
gered for several weeks on the verge of the
grave.
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LATER NEWS.

JAN PHoN LEE, Chinaman who grad
uated recently from Yale College with high
honors, was married the other day in New
Haven to Miss Elizabeth Maudc Jerome, a
good-looking heiress to 100000.
MoRE than 100 persons on the west side of
New York were made very sick by partaking
of ice cream that had been poisoned.
THE discovery of gold near Wheeling, w.
Va, has created considerable excitement.
THE left leg of Howard Williamson Ken
lucky farmer, has become gradually hard
ened until it seems to all appearance piece
of marble, from the hip down.
TwENTY-sEvEN national banks with all ag-
gregate capital of s3,59O,COO were organized
during June.
A FIRE in the Citadel at Quebec destroyed
the barracks, stables, ammunition wagons,
etc.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,

TAMBERLIK, the noted tenor, has lost his
voice and is making guns in Madrid.
ANNA DICKINSON is i'll from overwork and
worry. She will not play Hamlet again next
winter.
EDWIN BOOTH talks of retiring after next
season, He is rich again, and can afford to
live at leisure.
Ara recent performance of Mapleson opera
In London only ono woman in the parquet
wore bonnet.
FRANCIS WILSON, of the New York Casino,
is the highest priced comedian i'll the world.
He receives s475 week.
THEODORE HABELAANN, the once tenor,
will be stage manager for the German Opera
In New York next season.
ADA Monk, formerly well-known actress
in the companies of Booth and Barrett, Is
helpless in the New York Hospital.
IT takes 1920 bandsmen to make the music
for the 449, l39 German officers and soldiers
who keep step to the martial strains of the
fatherland.
LADY ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL proposes to
give her outdoor performance of las You
Like It," on the American Exhibition grounds
in London, for a charitable object, at s. a
ticket.
CAPTAIN JACK CRAWFORD, the fiery
Texan scout, temperance lecturer and poet,
has decided to 60 on the stage. He will br, a.;
out in the Fall with piece called "On the
Trail; or, Daniel Boone, the Avenger."
A GOOD orchestra could be gathered from
the players discarded by the prominent or,
chestral conductors in New York and Boston.
Neither Thomas nor Gericke wants men over
forty years of age, and older ones have to
find employment elsewhere.
CHARLOTTE WoLrEE, the great ViennesS
of the United States on January =, 1883. Her
twenty-fift anniversary Oh iii, stage was
recently celebrated with eclat. She is Count
ess O'Sulivan by marriage.
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IN OIL TOWN IN ASHES,
The Panic-Stricken People Flee
to the Hills For Safety.
Twenty Acres Burned Over, and
1900 People Homeless.

Clarendon, Penn, in the upper oil country,
on the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, has
beel almost wiped out by fire. The flames
broke out simultaneously in the Weaver
Hotel and in Brown Brothers planning mill
Tho meagre water supply gave out, and
the people became Mortified as they
realized their helplesuess Appeals for help
were Immediately sent to Warren and the
surrounding country. When the W arren fire
department responded it was discovered that
the hose was not brought along. While this
oversight wss being remedied the flames had
encroached upon the pumping station and the
water works were burned. A stream which
ran near the station was sought, but it gave
only meagre supply. The air was so full of
flames and heat that q number of Oil tanks in
the upper part of the town exploded.
The fire then filled the streets and wound
its serpentine course under the buildings in all
directions Men whose cheeks were blanched
with terror ran hither and thither for
their families and children. High above the
roaring of the flames were to be heard the
cries of those who were looking for loved
ones Fortunately they had all instinctively
sought the hillside, and but one person was
burned. That was q man employed at
Mum & Co. s feed store. He was burned to
death in the barn.
Inc telegraph ana telepnone oHlceS were
burned in the early stages of the conhagra-
ton. This left the people without any means
of communicating with the outside world
Several trains Of oil cars coming east were
stopped beyond the town.
Twelve hundred people on the hillsides and
In the vacant lots were in most pitiable
condition in the morning. They had neither
money nor food and many of them but little
clothing The people of Warren loaded train
on the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad with
provisions and sent it to Clarendon at
an early hour. All day the outgoing trains
hospitality of relatives and friends, many of
them having lost all they had in the world.
The buildings destroyed were about 100 in
number, and covered an area of twenty acres.
The total pecuniary losses are placed at from
$3.50 0UU to S5OOOO0
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In 1856 one of the brightest and
largest meteors ever seen in this count
try passed over the zenith of Central
New York, about 8 o'clock on the
evening of July II. This meteor was
seen in Northern Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Western New England, all OF
New York State, and large portion.
of Canada. Its brilliance was such az,
to lights at one and the same instant the
entire area of these regions with an .
illumination almost equal to daylight
There was no report as to where this ]
meteor reached the surface of thes
earth. On the evening Of the Goth OF
August, in the same year, another
meteor passed over. New York, and,
although not as brilliant as the one.
seen in July, it was very remarkable
one. In 1886 q brilliant meteor was
seen to descend in Independence,
Township, Washington County, Penn
sylvania. About q month later Pro-
fessor limerick declared that he had
found the meteoric stone about two
miles north of Clayville. This stone
the Professor estimated would weigh,
nearly two hundred tons. Con.
siderable doubt was thrown up
on the investigations of this Penn
sylvan:a meteor, but it led to some in-
teresting developments. 1t was'stated
at that time that there were only eigh-
teen authentic cases in which aerolites
had fallen in the United States in sixty
years. The date of the fall of 26T (.
others has been reasonably well deter {
mined, ind there are seventy-four In
stances in which the date of the fall
is not given authoritatively. In add,
tion to these, eighty-siy masses, be--
lieved to be aerolites, have been found.
in different parts of the country, though
the date of their fail could not be ass
certained. In all there have been re.
ported 430 aerolites in this country;
the most brilliant being that which fell
near Guernsey, Ohio, on the lst OF
May, 1850. The course of this meteor
was traced and the stone was secured
and analysed.
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THE NATIONAL GAME.

RYAN, Of the Chicagoess has played every
position except behind the bat and on first
base.
PITCHER FERGUSON Of the Philadelphiss,
has struck out more men than any League
pitcher.
JOHNSTON, Bostop's centre fielder, has not
made an error since May 26, and he has
played in twenty-five consecutive games.
MURRAY, of the Lynns, is richer by suit
OF clothes for having been the first local
player to make home run on the Lynn
grounds.
FIVE double plays in a game is rather re-
markable exhibition. In the contest between
Des Moines and st. Paul the former is credited
with three and the latter two.
WARD, of the New Ycrks, has had the
greatest record of consecutive hitting of any
League player. In every game between May
II and June Is, he made at least one clean
hit.
TIE Pittsburgs have played three errorless
games thus far this season, which shows
fine fielding record, even if the club is not
winning many games. Weak batting defeats
them.
MICHAEL KELLY, the Boston Clubs 900
catcher, was escorted to the ball grounds in
Chicago, upon his first appearance in that
city this season, by brass band and was
overwhelmed with floral tributs.
BURKE, whom Detroit has signed, is a per-
feet Hercules, weighs about POO pounds, and
sends ball through with terrific speed. He
pitched for the Pioneers, of San Francisco,
and in recent game struck ont fourteen
men.
In the Association batting list ONeil and
Latham lead for the St. Louis Browns,
Larkin, for the Athletics; Phillips, for Brook
lyn, Fennelly, for the CincinnatiS; browning,
for Louisville; Orr, for the Nets; Tucker for
the Baltimores; and Hotaling, for the Cleve-
lands.
In recent game at Indianapolis the per-
formances of Johnston, Boston's centre
fielder, and Bassett, second baseman for
the Hoosiers, shone resplendent. Johnston's
record has seldom, if ever, been exceiled:
Five times at bat, four runs, two singles, q
three-bagger, home run, two stolen bases,
eight put outs, one assist, and no error.
Bassett made a hit every time he was at the
bat, three singles and double, stole two
bases, scored twice, put out three men and
assisted four times without an error.
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STARVING MILLIONS.
Terrible Effects Of Floods In China
People Eating Grass.

Terrible Effects of Floods in China
People Eating Grass.
Mr.. J. j. Fred Bandinel, United States
Vice Consul at Newchwang, China,
sends to the State Department, at
Washington, = narrowing account OF
a trip made by himself through the
flooded districts of China. He was distribut-
ing food and necessaries Of life to the starving
people, and during the trip relieved 396 per-
sons He says he found the. people generally
living on bran or chatf of large grass grown
for feeding cattle. Some were. reduced to
eating chopped grass, either ,moistened with
hot water or baked in cakes, while oth-
ers fed on the leaves and seeds OF
weeds gathered in the fields. In some OF the
villages half of the dwelling places had been
washed away and the inhabitants were hud-
died together in the remaining ones The
deaths from starvation had been very nu-
merous. and the sights he saw in some OF the
villages were pitiable.
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DANN1E SULLIVAN, o:Boston, jumped
on a low shed to get ball the other
evening and stumbled over two cleo
trio wires, thus completing a circuit,
and sending a tremendous curren'
of electricity through his little body.
When found he was dead; his clothing
was burning, and the flesh in contact
with the wires was burned to crisp
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Washington.

DURING the last fiscal year there were is
sued l12,340 pension certificates. Of this
number 55, 1914 were original cases; S,455 were
Mexican war claims under the act of Janu-
ary %, 1887; 10,030 were ''amputation" cases
under the act of August 6, 1S5, 1856, and 81
were increase cases.
THE consolidation of internal revenue dis
tricts, whereby twenty-five districts are
merged into others, has been consummated.
A DEFICIT of S2S,G has been discovered
in the accounts of the late Levi Bacon, finan-
cial clerk in the Interior Department.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has appointed AS
senblyman Leonard A. Giegerich Tam
many to be Collector of Internal Revenue in
the Second District of New York State
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DOODLE" MEN!

Fate Of the New York Bribe-Takers
and Bribe-Givers.
The following list, says the New York
World, shows the present status of every
person connected with the granting of the
franchise to the Broadway road. 1t will be
found of interest at this juncturc of affairs:
ROLL OF HONOR.
Hugh J. Grant-Voted against the fran
chise.
John C. O'Cornor-Voted against the fran
chise.
VOTED FOR THE BILL.
Henry W. Jaehne-In Sing Sing.
Arthur j. McQuade-In Sing Sing.
Thomas Cleary-.Once tried jury dis
agreed: now on bail.
John O'Neil-In Sing Sing.
Ludolph A. Fuligralf-Informer.
Michael Duffy-Informer
Charles R. Waite-Informer.
Charles Dempsey-In Canada.
Henry L. Sayles-In Canada.
Robert De Lacy-In Canada.
Thomas Rothman-1n Germany.
Francis McCabe-Insane.
Louis Wendel-Indcted; on bail
Thomas Sheils-Indicted; on bail
James Pearson-Indicted on bail
Charles H. Reilly-Indicted; on bail.
w. P. Kirk-Indicted; on bail.
Patrick Farley-Indicted; on bail
Frederick Finck-Indicted; on bail
w. H. Miller-Indicted; on bail
Patrick Kenny-Dead.
Michael F. McLoughlin-Dead.
HANDLERS OF THE DOODLE.
William Moloney-In Canada.
John keenan-In Canada.
THE BRIBE-GIvERs.
Jacob Sharp-Convicted.
James W. Foshay-Dead.
Thomas B. kerr-Indicted; on bail
James A Richmond-Indicted: on bail